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The "missing" Buran, fully stacked, in storage at the Cosmodrome. This vehicle was later destroyed in a roof collapse incident |
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The Soyuz launch pad; this is the site of the launch of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1, the very first orbital mission in the history of human spaceflight, April 12, 1961 |
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Alexei Leonov teasing ASEUSA Executive Director Andy Turnage on the steps of the Soyuz launch gantry |